Senior Core Systems Lead & Release Architect

First New York Federal Credit Union; Albany (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

First New York Federal Credit Union is seeking a Senior Core Systems Lead to steward the credit union’s core platforms, including Jack Henry Symitar. The role focuses on administration, releases, and seamless vendor coordination to ensure a scalable, resilient core ecosystem.

You will advance from hands-on execution to independent ownership of releases, upgrades, and essential operational decisions, while mentoring teams and aligning core operations with business goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, IS, or related field; equivalent education and experience considered.
• 5+ years of experience supporting business-critical platforms, financial systems, core banking systems, or integrations.
• Jack Henry Symitar experience strongly preferred.
• Credit union experience and familiarity with EASE, Synergy, ARCU, SymXchange, SymForm, PowerOn/RepGen, OpCon, APIs, SQL, secure file transfer, or digital/origination integrations are valuable.
• Experience leading or coordinating implementations, upgrades, releases, integrations, and major system changes.
• Maintain strict confidentiality and comply with information-security, privacy, change-management, incident-response, and internal-control requirements.
• Support scheduled off-hours work and join the compensated on-call rotation when ready.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Symitar, Synergy, ARCU, SymXchange, SymForm/document technologies, processing schedules, interfaces, and related services.
• Develop or modify PowerOns, reports, extracts, forms, interfaces, and automations; review vendor work.
• Identify root causes, technical debt, and opportunities to improve reliability and supportability.
• Lead core-native implementations, releases, upgrades, enhancements, integrations, and optimization initiatives.
• Coordinate requirements, testing, deployment, rollback planning, and post-implementation review.
• Represent Core Operations as SME on enterprise projects involving related platforms.
• Own documentation of core architecture, configuration, processing, and operational procedures.
• Build runbooks, checklists, and knowledge-transfer materials.

Skills

Systems thinking

Leadership

Documentation discipline

Ownership & judgment

Business partnership

Organization & leadership potential

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/IS or related field

Tools

Jack Henry Symitar

EASE

Synergy

ARCU

SymXchange

SymForm

PowerOn/RepGen

OpCon

APIs

SQL

Secure file transfer

Job description

First New York Federal Credit Union is seeking a Senior Core Systems Lead to steward the credit union’s core platforms, including Jack Henry Symitar. The role focuses on administration, releases, and seamless vendor coordination to ensure a scalable, resilient core ecosystem.

You will advance from hands-on execution to independent ownership of releases, upgrades, and essential operational decisions, while mentoring teams and aligning core operations with business goals.